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AFAIK evolutionary psychology has been completely taken over by "race realists," instead of trying to understand how mental illness evolved in humans or what mental illness looks like in other species.
See I remember being interested in the stuff from a much more indistinct lens, stuff like our instinctive fear and disgust towards certain stimuli (seeing a snake in the grass, trypophobia, why certain bugs freak people out more than others) but most of the people I met who were into evopsych just wanted to study IQ, I assume because it would let them categorize people into tiers of worth. I hated it both because it was a hiding spot for racism and because it was ruining what could be a pretty interesting field looking at mankind's part in the evolutionary narrative of mammals.
It would be really helpful too to know how things evolved so we could treat certain conditions (like with wisdom teeth or the appendix). But yeah. It feels like it's turned into Phrenology: 2020 edition. I think a lot of schools have dropped courses for it as a result and psychiatrists are avoiding it altogether.